Black, Clementina.
A New Way of Housekeeping:
(W. Collins, 1st edition, 1918).
Rare first edition copy of this ground-breaking work. For the collector. Women employed in housekeeping; changes in domestic standards; why not be servantless?; the distaste for domestic service; labour-making houses; domestic federations; reconstructed domestic service; the motor as emancipator; waste of labour; women who do domestic work without aptitude or satisfaction; service of women needed by the country. Clementina Black urges a reorganisation of household duties, in order to free women from domestic drudgery. In her utopian vision of 'co-operative housekeeping', women would be released from the wasted effort of housework and made available for the labour market, which was now so very depleted of men after the Great War. She criticises the 'stupidity' of 'labour-making houses', and questions the continuing validity of the employment of domestic servants in the modern age. Her solution is to propose the formation of 'domestic federations'. These would represent committees of householders who would collectively manage their domestic arrangements in a centre 'fitted up with store places, kitchens, dining-rooms, offices, and lodgings for a nucleus of resident servants'. Hardback. Original cloth covered in small dark and white blotches, corners worn and spine split, text firm. A good working copy only. 132pp. Order No. NSBK-C4960
Keywords: Great War, First World War, World War I, social history, class, middle classes, middle class, domesticity, servants, domestic servants, maid, maids, housemaids, housekeeping, Clementina Black, labour-making houses, homes, houses, domestic service, twentieth century, interwar, inter-war, inter war, Homes for Heroes, housing, domestic standards, etiquette, women, domestic work, labour, working women, women's history, chores, co-operative housekeeping, domestic federations, cooperative housekeeping, co-operatives, co-operation, cooperation, Women's Industrial Council, labour-saving, labour market, labor, labour shortage, housework, utopianism, utopian, stored with antiquarian
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Arts Council of Great Britain, .
Modigliani:
(The Arts Council, 1963).
At the Tate Gallery, 28th September- 3rd November. Illustrated with black and white and colour photographs of the paintings. Exhibition Catalogue. Covers slightly soiled, otherwise very good. 23pp. Order No. NSBK-A10651
Keywords: Amedeo Modigliani, France, French, Jews, Jewish, painters, paintings, art, artists, twentieth century, 20th
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Clifford, James.
Aspects of Economic Development, 1760 to 1960:
(Longman, 3rd impress., 1975).
Paperback. Spine and covers slightly soiled and chipped, otherwise good. 315pp. Order No. NSBK-A10467
Keywords: 0582422094, economy, economics, Britain, British, history, England, English, twentieth century, 20th, economists, policy
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Stock, Catherine McNichol and Johnston, R., eds.
The Countryside in the Age of the Modern State: Political Histories of Rural America
(Cornell UP, 2001).
Paperback. Fine. xii + 335pp. Order No. NSBK-A9517
Keywords: 0801487714, country, countryside, state, America, American, politics, political rural, countryside, country, state, land, African Americans, Victorian, twentieth century, nineteenth, 20th, 19th, USA
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Corrigan, Philip, ed.
Capitalism, State Formation and Marxist Theory:
(Quartet Books, 1980).
Paperback. Spine faded, otherwise good+. xxvi + 232pp. Order No. NSBK-A12620
Keywords: 0704333112, capitalism, capitalists, Marxism, Marxists, State, theory, history of ideas, twentieth century, 20th, politics, political
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Webb, Beatrice.
Beatrice Webb's Diaries, 1912-1924:
(Longmans, Green and Co, 1952).
Edited by Margaret L. Cole. With an introduction by Lord Beveridge. Hardback. Spine ends bumped, covers slightly worn, otherwise good in chipped, torn and worn dustwrapper. xxvi + 272pp. Order No. NSBK-C11987
Keywords: B0000CI9IH, Beatrice Webb, The Webbs, Sidney Webb, philanthropy, philanthropists, twentieth century, left- wing, socialism, socialists, autobiography, autobiographies, autobiographical, life history, life histories, lives, life, memoirs. self history, self histories, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, women's history, woman, women, women's studies, female, females, feminine, gender
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Belsey, Catherine and Moore, Jane, eds.
The Feminist Reader: Essays in Gender and the Politics of Literary Criticism
(Macmillan, 1989).
Paperback. Very good. x + 263pp. Order No. NSBK-C8565
Keywords: 0333446038, gender, women, men, literary criticism, literary critics, history of ideas, twentieth century, 20th, gender, literature, readings
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Dix, Bernard and Williams, Stephen.
Serving the Public: Building the Union: The History of the National Union of Public Employees. Volume 1: The Forerunners 1889-1928
(Lawrence and Wishart, 1987).
Paperback. Near fine. 238pp. Order No. NSBK-A13411
Keywords: 0853156468, Britain, British, England, English, NUPE, Union, Trade Unions, streets, wages, public health, New Unionism, nineteenth century, twentieth century, Victorian, Edwardian, municipal, urban, MEA, First World War, World war 1, Great War, labour, work, jobs, women workers, National Union of Public Employees, labor
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Wigham, Eric L.
Trade Unions:
(OUP, 1969).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, otherwise good. 189pp. Order No. NSBK-A5148
Keywords: 0198880413, trade unions, trade unionism, labor, labour, employment, work, state, Britain, British, England, English, history, workers' rights, workers, employers, employees, Victorian, twentieth century, politics, nineteenth century
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Fletcher, Ronald.
The Abolitionists: The Family and Marriage Under Attack
(Routledge, 1988).
Paperback. Fine. x + 230pp. Order No. NSBK-A11039
Keywords: 0415008751, family, familes, sociology, sociologists, marriages, twentieth century, 20th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK
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